Be sure to include your name, daytime phone number, address, name and phone number of legal next-of-kin, method of payment, and the name of the funeral home/crematory to contact for verification of death.

Community members and businesses have donated burial expenses for the kindergartner killed in a traffic accident in front of Tuolumne Elementary School last week.

Franklin & Downs Funeral Home is donating funeral services. Celeste Flowers of Modesto has given a floral spray. Ceres Memorial Park is providing the grave site. The Latino Community Roundtable paid for the obituary.

Services have been finalized for Alan “Alex” Navarro Fernandez, 5, who was killed Wednesday when he stepped in front of a city bus while leaving school.

A Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Jude’s Catholic Church, 3824 Mitchell Road, Ceres. Graveside services will follow at Ceres Memorial Park, 1805 E. Whitmore Ave., Ceres. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, with a rosary at 6 p.m., at Franklin & Downs, 1050 McHenry Ave., Modesto.

The Alex Fernandez Benefit Memorial Fund has been set up at Wells Fargo to receive donations for the family. To express condolences, go to www.tinyurl.com/AlexFernandez.

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